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...from Rome that Pope Paul VI had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop, tendered last year when Shehan reached the recommended retirement age of 75. Baltimore's new archbishop will be Bishop William Borders, 60, of Orlando, Fla., a prelate known for his programs to help migrant workers and other poor. Shehan will remain a cardinal for the rest of his life...
Zorn, in rabbit language, "denotes a catastrophe." Frith is the sun "personified as a god." Hlessil means migrant rabbits. And obviously Watership Down-the name of the upland where these hlessil finally make their new home-is also the code word for that territory known to Oxford dons and nannies: English-whimsy country...
These strategies involved exhorting, wheedling or shaming readers into identifying with the plight of the journalists' subjects--the tenant farmers and migrant workers, the victims of the Spanish Civil War. Too often, though, documentary journalists concentrated more on their own responses than on the experience or the social predicament of the people whom they photographed and described. At Stott points out, there was something spurious about Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of smiling sharecroppers that seemed to shout at me, I'm so poor. I don't know how wretched I really...
...prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...
...this kind of exploitation never developed much in Israel at all, at least before the 1967 war. After that war, Israel's control of large amounts of occupied territory inhabited by Arabs led Israeli employers to hire some low-salaried migrant Arab workers, even as occasional government-sanctioned settlements in the occupied lands began creating new conditions that any subsequent peace negotiations would have to take into account...